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Klooster - Kohnhorst, Johanna Geertruida

Date of birth:
May 2nd, 1896 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Date of death:
October 4th, 1978 (Amersfoort, the Netherlands)
Buried on:
Dutch War Graves Barneveld
Plot: B2. Row: 1Kl. 
Nationality:
Dutch

Biography

The Women's March 1945.
A total of 116 women are imprisoned in Camp Westerbork, originating from active resistance families from central and northeastern Netherlands. Assembled in Westerbork between 21 March and 6 April 1945 from 4 Sicherheitsdienst (SD) prisons in the country:
• Willem III Barracks in Apeldoorn – approximately 75 women come
from here from Putten, Barneveld, Ermelo, Ede, Veenendaal,
Utrecht
• House of Detention in Groningen – approximately 20 women, 16
of whom from Groningen or the surrounding area
• House of Detention in Zwolle – 12 women from Zwolle, 3 from
Kampen and 2 women from Hellendoorn and Beerzerveld
• De Kruisberg in Doetinchem – most women from the Willem III
barracks in Apeldoorn were held here for a few more days,
together with a few prisoners from Zutphen, Twello, Lutten aan
de Dedemsvaart.

The women have all ranks and ages, ranging from 17 to 63 years. Among them pregnant girls, a baroness, strict reformed people next to a reviled communist, and a fortune teller.
Johanna Geertruida was one of them.

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